"Nostalgia for what America once did, or once was, will complicate a concert further, especially if middle powers allied to the United States believe it might return to its former behaviour -- it could prevent them really committing to cooperation that excludes the United States. It may also be that without American leadership, its closest allies cannot summon the will, the ambition, or the vision to continue prosperity-enhancing improvements."
- Kori Schake

Gongol.com Archives: May 2019

The Michigan Republican has broken out as someone who is thinking clearly about what the Mueller Report told the world. He's read the full report -- available to us all -- and he's angry: "The ball is in our court, Congress."

Noah Rothman has little love for the way a populist wave has crashed into power. And it's not to be trusted -- in the words of Margaret Thatcher, "The essence of a free society is that there are whole areas of life where the State has no business at all, no right to intervene." (It doesn't matter if your "team" happens to have political control of the state at the moment or not.)